HP Announces 2013 AllianceOne Partner of the Year Award Winners

LAS VEGAS — HP today announced the 2013 winners of the HP AllianceOne Partner of the Year Award.

The HP AllianceOne Partner Awards recognize partner members that have achieved outstanding accomplishments in the development and delivery of innovative HP-based solutions that raise the standard for business excellence and client satisfaction. The winners are chosen for delivering solutions that drive meaningful results for shared customers.

“HP is announcing the 2013 AllianceOne Partner of the Year award to those partners that have demonstrated superior integration with HP technologies,” said Doug Oathout, vice president, Channel and Alliances, Enterprise Marketing, HP. “They have demonstrated exceptional dedication and expertise in addressing the business and technology challenges of their customers within the areas of cloud computing, communications interoperability, converged storage, information optimization, mission-critical computing and security.”

The following organizations are recipients of the 2013 AllianceOne Partner of the Year Award.

Category: Cloud Computing

F5 Networks, a worldwide leader in application delivery networking, is recognized for its broad suite of intelligent application services to ensure the reliable, secure and fast delivery of applications—in the data center, network or cloud—to any device located anywhere. Combined with HP’s data center and network infrastructure solutions, F5 solutions help customers gain a competitive edge through greater business agility and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO).

PwC, a company that provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services, is recognized for providing customers with project and program management support when implementing HP’s cloud computing services around IT service management (ITSM), risk management, communications management, and quality management and control.

Category: Communications Interoperability

Microsoft, the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential, is recognized for leveraging HP Networking technologies with Microsoft® Lync to integrate customer communications tools—telephony, video conferencing, email and instant messaging—to address key challenges of interoperability that can jeopardize the mission-critical nature of telephone communications.

Mobixell Networks Inc., a leading global provider of intelligent mobile internet solutions, is recognized for its leadership and advances in delivering mobile data optimization as well as monetization solutions built on HP technology to enable mobile operators to significantly enhance their customers’ experience while simultaneously creating new sources of revenue.

Category: Converged Storage

Axcient, a leading cloud solution for eliminating application downtime and data loss, is recognized for leveraging HP Converged Storage technology to go beyond traditional data backup to deliver best-in-class business continuity and disaster recovery service that enables businesses to reduce risk and cost, while improving productivity.

Veeam® Software, an innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualization management solutions for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, is recognized for its Veeam Backup & Replication™, which provides customers with dramatic improvements in recovery time objectives (RTOs) as well as recovery point objectives (RPOs) when combined with HP StoreVirtual Storage and HP StoreServ Storage snapshots. Customers also experience an improvement in backup efficiency when combining Veeam Backup & Replication with HP StoreOnce Backup systems.

Category: Information Optimization

Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, is recognized for its data repository integration services, built on HP technology, that enable clients to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency.

Qosmos, a company that turns networks into information sources, making them application- and service-aware, is recognized for its strategic role in feeding real-time network intelligence to the HP Smart Profile Server (SPS) Analytics platform, used by communications service providers (CSPs) to ensure high service quality, create new revenue streams and optimize network investments.

Category: Mission-critical Computing

Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, is recognized for the high level of service and value it offers customers with its Smart Energy Services (SES) knowledge library of proven artifacts, program deliverables, processes, test cases, use cases, templates, models and reports that enable utility clients to leverage leading practices to meet their needs.

EnterpriseDB, the leading provider of enterprise-class products and services based on PostgreSQL, is recognized for its Postgres Plus family of products that leverage HP technology to deploy large enterprise mission-critical IT environments as well as software enhancements that are integrated with PostgreSQL to deliver enterprise-class performance, security and manageability.

SAP, the market leader in enterprise application software, is recognized for its SAP HANA® platform and its SAP® Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise and SAP Sybase Replication Server® software. These solutions leverage HP technology to enable enterprises to support an ever-increasing volume of transactions on mission-critical applications and improve operational efficiency with rock-solid security, high availability and disaster-recovery solutions, all while keeping IT costs low.

Category: Security

AccessData, a pioneer of digital and mobile investigations as well as litigation support solutions, is recognized for its solutions that leverage HP technology to help clients respond to and analyze cybersecurity threats, forensics and e-discovery, and for providing a powerful end-to-end solution for incident and threat response as well as remediation.

XYPRO Technology Corporation, a developer of mission-critical security software and longtime HP NonStop partner, is recognized for its suite of security solutions, built on HP NonStop technology, that provide customers with audit and compliance management, role-based access control, single sign-on and multifactor authentication, discretionary and dynamic object security, and state-of-the-art encryption.

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All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies.

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